Stephen Gill Research Articles

The Globalization Decade: A Critical Reader

Over the past decade the Socialist Register has been widely recognised as providing the most distinctive investigations on the left today of the contradictions of globalisation, the internationalisation of the state, progressive competitiveness, the new imperialism and popular global mobilisations against it. Among the well known writers whose essays have built the Register's reputation for this are Robert Cox, Harry Magdoff, Andrew Glyn, Bob Sutcliffe, Immanuel Wallerstein, Stephen Gill, Leo Panitch, Manfred Beinefeld, Gregory Albo, Arthur MacEwan, Frances Fox-Piven, Jim Crotty, Gerald Epstein, Elmar Altvater, Doug Henwood, David Harvey, Hugo Radice, Ursula Huws, Constantine Tsoukalas, Wally Seccombe, David Coates, Joachim Hirsch, Boris Kagarlitsky, Colin Leys, Henry Bernstein, Beverly Silver, Giovanni Arrighi, Gerard Dumenil, Naomi Klein, Birgid Mahnkopf and Brigitte Young. This anthology provides: - The most searching analyses of the political, economic and cultural contradictions of globalisation available - essential reading for students in troubled times - The best set of readings on the role of states - and especially the American state - in making globalisation happen, and on the problems they now confront in trying to keep it going.

Politics or markets? The determinants of cross‐border financial integration in the NAFTA and the EU

One of the most striking political developments of the past two decades has been the heightened interest at both a practical and theoretical level in new institutional arrangements that may be driv...

BOOK REVIEW: Richard Cronin.ROMANTIC VICTORIANS: ENGLISH LITERATURE, 1824-1840. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002

Reviewed by: Romantic Victorians: English Literature, 1824–1840 Dino Franco Felluga (bio) Romantic Victorians: English Literature, 1824–1840, by Richard Cronin; pp. viii + 296. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002, £55.00, $69.95. Romantic Victorians redresses an egregious lacuna in nineteenth-century scholarship, the ten-year crack that falls between Romanticism and Victorianism, between the death of Lord Byron in 1824 and Queen Victoria's assumption of the throne in 1837. In between, [End Page 684] we witness a rich period of culture that is rarely discussed by either Romantic or Victorian critics, largely because the period is seen as falling outside the province of each group. The fact that Richard Cronin attempts to take this period seriously is reason enough to read his book. By exploring the connections among the period's cultural products, he allows future critics to begin a much-needed reconstruction of exactly how the Victorian period refashioned Romantic aesthetics and politics to usher in all the values and forms of the Victorian bourgeois subject. This does not necessarily mean, however, that one should expect from this book a fully coherent statement on the transition between the Romantic and Victorian periods. The book revels in a conversational, even anecdotal diffuseness that was this reader's delight as well as occasional frustration. As Cronin states in his introduction, "the book as a whole is not an attempt to define the manner in which early Victorian writers assimilated the work of their Romantic precursors, but simply to outline a few of the very various possibilities that were explored" (14). "Very various" indeed characterizes Cronin's own book, which eschews large theoretical arguments in favor of a peripatetic examination of disparate figures, themes, and issues. With the notable exception of John Clare, no one figure or critical work is given extensive treatment, since Cronin chooses, rather, to provide the reader with a wide-ranging examination of disparate material. Indeed, each chapter is deserving of book-length treatment, given that Cronin ranges from the Victorian memorialization of Romantic poets in biography and fiction (chapter 1 on Edward Trelawny; Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington; Thomas Hogg; Leigh Hunt; Caroline Lamb; Mary Shelley; and Benjamin Disraeli); to the Victorian understanding of the French Revolution (chapter 2 on Thomas Carlyle and Thomas Macaulay); to the feminization of poetry in the period (chapter 3 on Felicia Hemans, L. E. L., George Darley, and Alfred Tennyson); to the legacy of Byron in the fashionable novel (chapter 4 on Disraeli, Edward Bulwer, Carlyle, Mary Shelley, and Catherine Gore); to the taming of Romantic revolutionary ideals (chapter 5 on Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Tennyson, Robert Browning, and Elizabeth Barrett); to the importance of realism in Victorian poetry (chapter 6 on Clare); to the Victorian privileging of Christian community over Romantic individualism (chapter 7 on Tennyson and Browning); to Tennyson's domestication of the incestuous and narcissistic sexuality of Percy Bysshe Shelley's 1817 Revolt of Islam (chapter 8). By addressing so many disparate works, Cronin at once opens up many new avenues for exploration and keeps himself from exploring those avenues in any great detail himself. For a more in-depth exploration of any one Romantic author's influence on the Victorian period, the reader would be advised to turn to the ever-growing list of books on offer titled "___ and the Victorians": G. H. Ford's Keats and the Victorians (1944) (or James Najarian's much more recent Victorian Keats [2002]), Andrew Elfenbein's Byron and the Victorians (1995), and Stephen Gill's Wordsworth and the Victorians (1998). What Cronin's book does offer, which these other books tend not to, is a more wide-ranging, if somewhat random, examination of multiple authors, with lesser-studied figures juxtaposed against more canonical work. At its best, this approach leads Cronin into some superb scholarship. The fifth chapter best exemplifies what Cronin's idiosyncratic method makes possible. Entitled "Civilizing Romanticism," it begins by laying out those historical events of 1820 to 1832 that allowed the idea of citizenship to be renewed for the Victorians after the concept was [End Page 685] tainted by the French Revolution's citoyen. Cronin then outlines how figures tied to the...

Introduction: globalisation, governance and development

Few disciplines have faced as much turbulence as development studies over the last 40 years.1 This fact is all the more significant as this period takes up almost the entire official history of the...

Romantic Victorians: English Literature, 1824-1840 (review)

Reviewed by: Romantic Victorians: English Literature, 1824–1840 Dino Franco Felluga (bio) Romantic Victorians: English Literature, 1824–1840, by Richard Cronin; pp. viii + 296. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002, £55.00, $69.95. Romantic Victorians redresses an egregious lacuna in nineteenth-century scholarship, the ten-year crack that falls between Romanticism and Victorianism, between the death of Lord Byron in 1824 and Queen Victoria's assumption of the throne in 1837. In between, [End Page 684] we witness a rich period of culture that is rarely discussed by either Romantic or Victorian critics, largely because the period is seen as falling outside the province of each group. The fact that Richard Cronin attempts to take this period seriously is reason enough to read his book. By exploring the connections among the period's cultural products, he allows future critics to begin a much-needed reconstruction of exactly how the Victorian period refashioned Romantic aesthetics and politics to usher in all the values and forms of the Victorian bourgeois subject. This does not necessarily mean, however, that one should expect from this book a fully coherent statement on the transition between the Romantic and Victorian periods. The book revels in a conversational, even anecdotal diffuseness that was this reader's delight as well as occasional frustration. As Cronin states in his introduction, "the book as a whole is not an attempt to define the manner in which early Victorian writers assimilated the work of their Romantic precursors, but simply to outline a few of the very various possibilities that were explored" (14). "Very various" indeed characterizes Cronin's own book, which eschews large theoretical arguments in favor of a peripatetic examination of disparate figures, themes, and issues. With the notable exception of John Clare, no one figure or critical work is given extensive treatment, since Cronin chooses, rather, to provide the reader with a wide-ranging examination of disparate material. Indeed, each chapter is deserving of book-length treatment, given that Cronin ranges from the Victorian memorialization of Romantic poets in biography and fiction (chapter 1 on Edward Trelawny; Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington; Thomas Hogg; Leigh Hunt; Caroline Lamb; Mary Shelley; and Benjamin Disraeli); to the Victorian understanding of the French Revolution (chapter 2 on Thomas Carlyle and Thomas Macaulay); to the feminization of poetry in the period (chapter 3 on Felicia Hemans, L. E. L., George Darley, and Alfred Tennyson); to the legacy of Byron in the fashionable novel (chapter 4 on Disraeli, Edward Bulwer, Carlyle, Mary Shelley, and Catherine Gore); to the taming of Romantic revolutionary ideals (chapter 5 on Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Tennyson, Robert Browning, and Elizabeth Barrett); to the importance of realism in Victorian poetry (chapter 6 on Clare); to the Victorian privileging of Christian community over Romantic individualism (chapter 7 on Tennyson and Browning); to Tennyson's domestication of the incestuous and narcissistic sexuality of Percy Bysshe Shelley's 1817 Revolt of Islam (chapter 8). By addressing so many disparate works, Cronin at once opens up many new avenues for exploration and keeps himself from exploring those avenues in any great detail himself. For a more in-depth exploration of any one Romantic author's influence on the Victorian period, the reader would be advised to turn to the ever-growing list of books on offer titled "___ and the Victorians": G. H. Ford's Keats and the Victorians (1944) (or James Najarian's much more recent Victorian Keats [2002]), Andrew Elfenbein's Byron and the Victorians (1995), and Stephen Gill's Wordsworth and the Victorians (1998). What Cronin's book does offer, which these other books tend not to, is a more wide-ranging, if somewhat random, examination of multiple authors, with lesser-studied figures juxtaposed against more canonical work. At its best, this approach leads Cronin into some superb scholarship. The fifth chapter best exemplifies what Cronin's idiosyncratic method makes possible. Entitled "Civilizing Romanticism," it begins by laying out those historical events of 1820 to 1832 that allowed the idea of citizenship to be renewed for the Victorians after the concept was [End Page 685] tainted by the French Revolution's citoyen. Cronin then outlines how figures tied to the...

Managing Development: EU and African Relations through the Evolution of the Lomé and Cotonou Agreements

The relationship between the European Union 1 and Africa has been formalised since the beginning of the European integration project in the evolving Yaounde, Lome and now Cotonou Agreements. The relationship has shifted in line with the emerging global framework for neoliberal accumulation. This shift has involved the re-designing’ of developmental strategies and their ‘locking-in’ in the long term. Theoretically, this global shift in the organisation of both production and social relations (including popular understandings) has been well documented and the changing dominant patterns of production in advanced industrial economies has been highlighted at length. However, this article aims to develop further the idea of ‘locking-in’, outlined in the work of Stephen Gill, and to place an increased emphasis on the phenomena of both re-designing and locking-in as they apply to the alteration of developmental strategies in Less Developed Countries (LDCs), among which those in Africa have suffered from extreme marginalisation and exploitation. This article reveals the often ignored role of the EU in this process. It argues that the EU, through its institutionalised link with Africa, has played a key role in re-designing developmental strategies to complement the global shift to neoliberal accumulation which, in its latest phase, is aimed particularly at the complex, multifaceted and increasingly integrated project to ‘lock-in’ the gains of capital over labour on a global scale. The article begins with a brief introduction to the complementary projects of ‘re-designing’ and ‘locking-in’ before considering these against the historical evolution of the Lome and Cotonou relationship.

Wordsworth's Mortal Remains

April 23, 1850, the date of Wordsworth's death, struck late-Victorian commentators as peculiarly significant: not only was it St. George's Day, but also Shakespeare's birth- and death-day. Many contemporary newspaper and periodical reports, however, regarded Wordsworth's as non-event. On April 27, the day of the funeral, Spectator wrote: The of creates an official vacancy--the Laureate has departed. It is an historical fact, but not more; for he had long been withdrawn from the world of active life, and even pen had forgotten its function (News of the Week 385). writer expresses no grief but suggests that the death of the poet be equated with the extinction of the creative faculty, which had occurred years before physiological death. For Spectator, he has done little for some time and his glory was on the shelves. public view that belonged to posterity originated long before death, in the literary tourism, pilgrimage and relic-gathering of the 1830s. Stephen Gill cites various examples in and the Victorians--from Elizabeth Barrett's delight at receiving a slip of green from the Rydal Mount garden in 1841, to the two thousand names entered in the Visitors Book during the 1840s (Gill 10, 14). was canonised in lifetime, as American senator Charles Sumner's 1838 letter vividly conveys: My dear Hilliard, I have Wordsworth! odd it seemed to knock at neighbour's door, and inquire, 'Where does live?' Think of rapping at Westminster Abbey, and asking for Shakespeare, or Milton! (Gill 14). Sumner's sense of Wordsworth's place amongst the immortals makes it incredible, not only that he has really seen Wordsworth but that Mr. Wordsworth is still anywhere. early Victorian view of as both posthumous and immortal helps to account for the smooth transition in 1850 from focus on the living of Rydal Mount to the dead of St. Oswald's churchyard, Grasmere. While authors' burial-places attracted considerable nineteenth-century attention, the popularity of Wordsworth's grave as shrine for actual and imagined pilgrimage is exceptionally intense and persistent; this ostensibly terminal site has generated hundreds of textual and graphic responses and representations. (1) Far from regretting that the Poet Laureate had no public funeral or tomb in Poets' Corner, visitors celebrated what J. J. Murphy called in an 1855 poem The Yews of Borrowdale Wordsworth's low but honoured grave; and, like Murphy, they imagined future generations coming from all round the world to call the place their spirits' fatherland (Murphy 10, 27). Wordsworth's grave represented new kind of spiritual goal in an increasingly sceptical and secular age. Scholars have given scant attention to the strong of the grave in Wordsworth's post-1850 reception. Gill omits it from the list of factors that began the process of transmitting an image of for posterity--the appearance of Prelude, the publication of the official biography, and the erection of public monuments (Gill 28-29). I argue that while enthusiasts pursued the poet's continuing presence via associated sites and objects--houses, landmarks and landscapes, personal effects, and especially manuscripts and published books--the grave uniquely embodied Wordsworth's final presence. For Victorian admirers the poet's corpse constituted physical link to him. Nathaniel Hawthorne's record of visit to Rydal Mount and St. Oswald's in July, 1855, demonstrates the status of Wordsworth's grave as shrine. At Rydal, Hawthorne narrowly avoided mistakenly pilfer[ing] some flower or ivy-leaf ... to be kept as sacred memorials from the neighbouring garden: How queer, if we should have carried away ivy-leaves and tender recollections from this domicile of respectable quaker (Hawthorne 166). …

Questioning Geopolitics: Political Projects in a Changing World-System

Repetition, Variation, and Transmutation as Scenarios for the 21st Century by Georgi M. Derluguian and Walter Goldfrank Restructuring World Power Globalizing Capital and Political Agency in the 21st Century by Stephen Gill Stateness and System in the Global Structure of Trade: A Network Approach to Assessing Nation Status by Michael Alan Sacks, Marc Ventrisca, and Brian Uzzi Predictions of Geopolitical Theory and the Modern World-System by Randall Collins and David V. Waller Redefining World Culture Why Must There Be a Last Cycle? The Prognosis for the World Capitalist System and a Prescription for Its Diagnosis by Daniel Chirot Mr. X? Doctrine X? A Modest Proposal for Thinking About the New Geopolitics by Bruce Cumings Radicalism, Resistance, and Cultural Lags. A Commentary on Benjamin Barber's Jihad Versus McWorld by Bernard Beck, Scott L. Greer, and Charles Ragin Formations of Globality and Radical Politics by Arif Dirlik From National States to Regional Networks The Rhineland, European Union, and Regionalism in the World Economy by Michael Loriaux Slipping into Something More Comfortable: Argentine-Brazilian Nuclear Integration and the Origins of the MERCOSUR by Isabella Alcaniz Mutual Benefit? African Elites and French African Policy by Scott Greer The Geoeconomic Reconfiguration of the State: The Asian-Pacific Transborder Subregions in the World System by Xianming Chen The Process and the Prospects of Soviet Collapse: Bankruptcy, Segmentation, Involution by Georgi M. Derluguian Index

Wordsworth and the Victorians. Stephen Gill

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The Liberal Moment: Modernity, Security, and the Making of Postwar International Order

Journal Article The Liberal Moment: Modernity, Security, and the Making of Postwar International Order Get access The Liberal Moment: Modernity, Security, and the Making of Postwar International Order by Robert Latham. New York, Columbia University Press, 1997. 281 pp. Cloth, $49.50; paper, $18.50. Stephen Gill Stephen Gill York University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 114, Issue 2, Summer 1999, Pages 342–343, https://doi.org/10.2307/2657766 Published: 15 February 2013

Wordsworth and the Victorians. Stephen Gill.

Wordsworth and the Victorians. Stephen Gill.

Maastricht Convergence in the Social and Christian Democratic Heartland

This article analyzes and critiques the so-called Maastricht Convergence criteria from the point of view of their effects on Swedish and German welfare capitalism. These criteria represent a particular, pragmatic, and technocratic form of neoliberalism that I, following Stephen Gill, call compensatory neoliberalism. This form of neoliberalism is preventing the realization of a potential developmental democratic resolution of the crisis of the welfare state that would favor public goods promoting citizenship capacities. A stable reconstellation of a leaner competitive social-corporatist capitalism is also rendered problematic. This is above all indicated by the pressure to deepen the neoliberal project in the societies concerned, in the quest for further flexibility. But the civil societal terrain has also not yet been prepared for such a hyperliberal Thatcherism. The implication of this is that one cannot (yet) speak of a stable neoliberal hegemonic bloc in what might be called the Social and Christian Democratic Heartland of Europe. I end the paper by asking what type of monetary arrangement and

Social Movements and the Problem of Globalization

Alternatives 23 (1998), 149-173 Social Movements and the Problem of Globalization Cecelia Lynch* There is a developing understanding among some “progressive” con- temporary social movement groups that economic globalization poses the primary obstacle to the fulfillment of their goals. This un- derstanding is well placed and overdue. Yet any effective response to globalization is predicated upon the ability of social movements to articulate a meaningful normative, or discursive, challenge. The par- ticular form of contemporary social movements’ inherited interna- tionalist focus, along with both activists’ and theorists’ past rejection of issues and politics deemed too class-based, has resulted in what we might call the discursive demobilization of movements on questions of economic praxis. This article thus seeks to open dialogue about the ability of what currently constitutes the normative challenge to globalization on the part of contemporary movements to reverse this discursive demobilization. “Globalization,” a phenomenon that succeeds the concepts of “modernization” and “interdependence,” now constitutes the touch- stone of any discussion of the contemporary world political economy. At the same time, there is heightened interest in the role of social movements in processes of change in world politics, and conse- quently in what is termed by some “transnational” or “global” civil so- ciety.1 As Stephen Gill points out, economic globalization affects so- ciety, on the group, national, and transnational levels: “[T]here are connections between the processes of economic globalization, and the way the outlook, expectations, and social choices of individuals and groups are being reshaped and reconfigured”? Although globalization is much discussed, disparaged, or touted, de- pending on the audience, disagreement remains concerning whether it is highly or marginally significant, new or old, and a phenomenon of *Dept. of Political Science, Northwestern University, Scott Hall, 601 University Place, Evanston, Ill., 60208-1006 149

International Political Economy: Understanding Global Disorder

The international political economy of the future, Bjorn Hettne emerging trends in political economy and international relations theory, Robert W. Cox Distant proximities - the dynamics and dialectics of globalization, James N. Rosenau democratization, social movements and world order, Yoshikazu Sakamoto the second glorious revolution - globalizing elites and historical change, Kees van der Pijl Gramsci, historical materialism and international relations, Stephen Gill.

Literature in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century British Publishing and Reading Practices

1. Introduction: publishing history as hypertext John O. Jordan and Robert L. Patten 2. Some trends in British book production 1800-1919 Simon Eliot 3. Wordsworth in The Keepsake, 1829 Peter J. Manning 4. Copyright and the publishing of Wordsworth 1850-1900 Stephen Gill 5. Sam Weller's Valentine J. Hillis Miller 6. Serialised retrospection in The Pickwick Papers Robert L. Patten 7. Textual/sexual pleasure and serial publication Linda K. Hughes and Michael Lund 8. The disease of reading and Victorian periodicals Kelly J. Mays 9. How historians study reader response or, what did Jo think of Bleak House? Jonathan Rose 10. Dickens in the visual market Gerard Curtis 11. Male pseudonyms and female authority in Victorian England Catherine A. Judd 12. A bibliographical approach to Victorian publishing Maura Ives 13. The 'wicked Westminster', the Fortnightly, and Walter Pater's Renaissance Laurel Brake 14. Serial fiction in Australian colonial newspapers Elizabeth Morrison Index.

World leadership and hegemony

Introduction, D.P.Rapkin comparison of British and US hegemonies, Lars Mjoset the legitimation of hegemonic power, G.John Ikenberry and Charles A.Kupchan power, production and the State - the social relations of US hegemony, Mark E.Rupert the Gramscian concept of declining hegemony - stages of US economic power and the evolution of international economic relations, Alan W.Cafruny spending, deficits, and welfare-investment tradeoffs - cause or effect of leadership decline?, Karen Rasler co-operation with or without hegemony - an optimistic view, Robert T.Kudrle and Davis T.Bobrow the trilateral search for international economic co-operation - toward a hegemony of transnational capital, Stephen Gill Japan and world leadership, D.P.Rapkin the limitations of hegemony - why a world State is necessary, Christopher Chase-Dunn global leadership - endgame scenarios, George Modelski.

Review: William Wordsworth: A Life., by Stephen Gill

Review: <i>William Wordsworth: A Life.</i>, by Stephen Gill

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REVIEWS Get access William Wordsworth: A Life. By STEPHEN GILL. Pp. xx+526. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. £17.50 net. NICHOLAS ROE NICHOLAS ROE University of St Andrews Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Review of English Studies, Volume XLI, Issue 164, November 1990, Pages 581–583, https://doi.org/10.1093/res/XLI.164.581 Published: 01 November 1990

William Wordsworth: a life

This biography of Wordsworth for the general reader takes account of the new information that has come to light in recent years. Officially Wordsworth was opposed to biography, parrying enquiries with the remark that his life was bare of entertainment and interest but the author views autobiography as the fundamental source of his work, as he wrote about real places and people; he memorialized his own experiences and recollections, his family, old friends and individuals met with in a chance encounters. Stephen Gill aims to present an insight into the development of his mind and the effects of old age on the poet's view of himself, his family and friends and on matters of the public and the private. The author examines all the evidence relating to Wordsworth's life and to his circle and balances this against Wordsworth's own accounts. Stephen Gill is the editor of the Oxford authors William Wordsworth.

The global political economy: perspectives, problems and policies

Journal Article The global political economy: perspectives, problems and policies Get access The global political economy: perspectives, problems and policies. By Stephen Gill David Law. London: Harvester. 1988. 394pp. Index. £12.95. ISBN 0 7450 0265 X. Marc Williams Marc Williams 1University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 65, Issue 3, Summer 1989, Page 539, https://doi.org/10.2307/2621751 Published: 01 July 1989